The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 92
There were some monks and Brahmans who held this doctrine, who held this view: “The world is eternal.
Who acts: monks, doctrine, world · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: doctrine, view
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monks, doctrine, world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 monks | det |
| 4 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Brahmans | cc |
| 6 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 monks | conj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 held | nsubj |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 monks | acl:relcl |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 doctrine | det |
| 10 | doctrine | doctrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 held | nsubj |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 doctrine | acl:relcl |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 view | det |
| 15 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 eternal | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 eternal | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eternal | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 eternal | cop |
| 21 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 view | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | some monks and Brahmans | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | some monks and Brahmans | this doctrine | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctrine=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | this doctrine | this view | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the world | eternal property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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